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Deutsche Bank agrees to a $7.2 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over its sale and pooling of toxic mortgage securities in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis.
2017-01-17

American pharmaceutical company Pfizer announces plans to acquire Hospira at a cost of $17 billion.
2015-02-5

A Paul Gauguin painting, "Nafea Faa Ipoipo" ("When Will You Marry?"), sells to a Qatari buyer for close to $300 million.
2015-02-5

The price of Brent Crude oil drops to $55–60 per barrel for the first time since 2009.
2014-12-16

Comcast is set to acquire Time Warner Cable in a US$44 billion buyout.
2014-02-13

A U.S. drone strike kills Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban (whom the United States had a reward for $5 million) and five others.
2013-11-1

With $18.5 billion in debts, the city of Detroit, Michigan files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, becoming the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. [http:--www.freep.com-article-20130718-NEWS01-307180107-Detroit-bankruptcy-filing-Kevyn-Orr-emergency-manager "(Detroit Free Press)"]
2013-07-18

The United Nations appeals for $4.4 billion of aid for refugees, the largest such request in the UN's history.
2013-06-7

Clothing retailer Ralph Lauren agrees to pay $1.6 million for claims of bribery to public officials in Argentina from 2005 to 2009.
2013-04-22

Gary Gensler, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, recuses himself from that agency's investigation into the bankruptcy of MF Global.
2011-11-7